Mothman Flutterings

Mothman Painting and Synchronicity of Matt Marshall

I came across an interesting site, with an interesting take, on Mothman. Matt Marshall, artist, offers his painting of Mothman with an explanation and description, as well as his encounters with mothy synchronicities after attending the Mothman Festival in Pt. Pleasant.

Secrets

I found this poem that I wrote about twenty years ago. I’m not sure why I chose a moth to represent the sadness I had concerning a relative going through depression at the time, but here it is:

secrets

the hairy moth
of musty secrets
is kept feebly alive
by the cold breath of its owner

pulled out late at night
from its dark and airless tunnel
its Amazonian wings thump dully,
large black eyes faceless and heavy
in the bone-white hand
of its keeper

While the poem doesn’t have anything to do with Mothman, and I certainly wasn’t thinking of Mothman when I wrote it, I notice there is a sense of coldness and loneliness that I associate with Mothman, and some parallels, like the “dark airless tunnel.”

Bubbles and Moths

I like this image; just as an image, but also for its connection to Mothman. Of course, Mothman has nothing to do with moths; the name Mothman was given to the entity by a reporter, so the story goes. A winged being; “moth.” The term was applied in a cavielier manner, inspired (supposedly) by pop culture.

Yet there are some similarites between Mothman and moths. Creatures of the night, coming forward to the light, misunderstood. The death’s head hawk moth is an omen of death, illness and wars in folklore. Spanish folklore says that black moths are signs of bad news, even death. A Wikipedia entry tells us that:

The species names atropos, styx and lachesis are all death-related. The first refers to the member of the Moirae who cuts the threads of life of all beings in Greek mythology; the second to the river of the dead, also in Greek mythology; and the last refers to the Moira who allots the correct amount of life to a being. In addition the genus name Acherontia is derived from Acheron, a river in Greece that was believed in Greek Mythology to be a branch of the river Styx.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death’s-head_Hawkmoth

All this sounds gloomy, if we look at the picture. I didn’t mean to go there or to imply that the children in the picture are being led to something sinister by moths. I just liked the image, and the fact there’s a bubble as well. But Mothman is misunderstood at times, as something evil. As the cause of bad things, rather than something that warns, possibly protects, even, in its warnings.
UFOs, orbs, ectoplasam, all have been seen in Mothman terrority, as well as csynchronicities. The bubble has been a symbol of spirits, positive energy, visitors from the other world. Moth like themselves in a way, or at least bug like, flitting about. Orbs are often seen around Bigfoot and other entities, as well as by themselves. Remember the Good Witch from Wizard of Oz? She appeared in a bubble that came floating down from above. Or beyond.

The children on the bubble in the image aren’t human children, they’re fairy children, being led (helped?) by the moths or butterflies.

Andrew Colvin: Newsletter

This is Andrew Colvin’s newsletter; he has very kindly allowed me to repost it here:
Mothventurers:

As you may recall, “Beyond The Grassy Knoll” has risen - like a phoenix - from the ashes. Vyz has been kind enough to keep the Mothy ball rolling. Mothman interviews 28 and 29 (which run together) are now up here:
http://gstreaming.com/vb.html

These shows cover conspiratorial events in recent weeks, revealing how mass mind control works, and how the Mothman phenomenon aims to counter that process. They will be totally downloadable in one week. Speaking of which, you can download interviews 26 and 27 here:
http://www.beyondthegrassyknoll.com/audio.html

Click in the “April 13th” section for those, and in the “March 21st” section for interview 25. FYI, Moth-friend Harriet Plumbrook has an interview in the “March 30th” section where she discusses our elementary school in Mound, WV.

Another friend, Regan Lee, has started an interesting blog on Mothman, where she discusses how reading my Mothman’s Photographer II book triggered a series of Mothman dreams and synchronicities:
http://orangeorb.net/blog/

Don’t forget to check my blog occasionally, as I have begun posting again after a year layoff (to edit Mothman III). What could be more
fun than exposing shills for the guvmint’s mil-oil-tary!
http://www.andycolvin.com/wordpress/

Lastly, my article in Paranoia Magazine #47 has finally hit the stands, forcing said mil-shills to rat-a-tat on their computer keys in an attempt to spin Mothman as “evil.”
http://www.paranoiamagazine.com/

Yours in feathers,

Andy

P.S. Just for kicks, here’s a couple of photos from a local school that adjoins a Catholic church built on sacred ground. The first one is of tilework - in progress - showing a Middle Eastern birdman much like the one that appeared when we were creating the DVD cover art for The Mothman’s Photographer reality series. The second one is a statue that looks very much like the ancient Hindu statues of the Garuda carrying Vishnu (see example).

Hurricanes in the Valley of the Dolls

Another “Mothman’ dream, even though Mothman didn’t appear in this dream in any way. There was no mention of Mothman in the dream of any kind. And yet, throughout the dream there was a sense of Mothman’s presence.

On the surface, the dream sounds terrible; horrible hurricanes keep coming, destroying property, knocking out power, hurting and killing people, etc. Lots of water and flooding.

As usual with my dreams, I am often one of the “characters” sometimes switching back and forth between characters, and then I’m in the “audience” watching the dream. Last night’s dream was like this.

The dream itself: I get premonitions of a coming storm, or hurricanes. The time frame for these events is roughly anywhere from 24 hours before the storm or hurricane, to a just a few hours before. I do what I can to alleviate and protect; I board up windows, move furniture, make sure kids and pets are safe, make sure there’s food, etc.

We watch these storms, and they’re beautiful. Something about the thunder and lightening and the power of the wind; the power of the water, is fantastic. At the same time, we, at least I, know the danger that goes with it. But I’m not afraid, just very cautious and practical.

While the dangers of these storms are real, the Mothman sense is real, there’s also a feeling of almost silliness in the melodrama. I mention to someone in the dream, in the midst of a hurricane, as we’re taking cover behind furniture and boarded up windows, that “this movie” (meaning the dream) “is one of the cheesiest movies to be made.” (I remember looking at one of the people in the dream, in the room we’re all in, behind a turned over sofa up against a window. She had jet black, piled high Valley of the Dolls hair.) It’s a move that’s so bad it’s good, sort of. A real campy movie, destined to be a classic, alongside Plan 9 From Outer Space. Okay, maybe not that bad. er, good. I mean, who can resist that movie? Remember the shot of the flying, mooing cow in the movie Twister? I love that one little shot; it’s so silly and campy, such an obvious big thriller block buster ploy. There was a sense of campy Towering Inferno melodrama in the midst of the beauty and power of the storms — and their dangers — as well as the very serious, non-melodrama (meaning, don’t be trifling around) of Mothman, even though he was unseen.

(Note: I just noticed something; after I had written this, and was proofing it, I saw the connection between my mentioning Valley of the Dolls and Sharon Tate. Sharon Tate, one of the actresses in Valley of the Dolls, was, of course, murdered by Charles Manson. (Actually, she wasn’t murdered by Manson himself; but that’s another issue.) Colvin, in his book Mothman’s Photographer II, mentions Manson, and the strange and uncomfortable associations with Manson, West Virginia, close proximity to Mothman and Colvin himself, mind control, and so much more. All those threads, connections and synchronicities we know to expect in this realm.

Like the dream itself, Mothman’s presence is about even if not overtly stated.)

John A. Keel

Loren Coleman over at Cryptomundo has a post about John A. Keel, asking what others think of him.

I was surprised and disappointed at a few of the responses that dismiss Keel. Others appreciate his incredible contributions to Forteana, which includes UFOs and Bigfoot and other creatures, like the Loch Ness creature, etc. (Despite the insistence by some researchers those things have no place in the more esoteric, Fortean realm.)

Keel (like Jacques Vallee and a few others) have always done their own thinking, and brought to all of us new ideas, new ways of looking at it all. It’s such a shame that there are those who can’t appreciate these ideas, or who get impatient with them, thinking that they’re quaint or old fashioned, or have nothing to do with UFOs, Bigfoot, and so on.

Not to say I agree completely with writers like Keel, Vallee, Steiger, and so on but none of us ever agree completely with each other — that’s not the point. Showing us new and different perspectives, and often the only voice among hundreds of voices that stick to the same rigid views — that’s what Keel has always done.

Let’s not forget about writers like Keel, who goes his own way, always has, and has brought us so many intriguing possibilities concerning the esoteric.

This is important because the more one gets into this field, the more one sees the connections and synchronicities that come out of studying these topics. Some ignore them or brush them off, considering them unimportant. But the more we look at these things, the more we see unique episodes of high strangeness; how can that be ignored? Yet so many do. These things can’t be ignored, dismissed or shrugged off. We’re really missing so much if we do.

Mothman This Way Quickly Comes

I had another Mothman dream last night. I don’t remember much in way of details, just a vagueness. What I remember is the feeling of the dream. The sense of it.

Before going to sleep, I read a little bit of Colvin’s Mothman’s Photographer II. (I’m just about at the end of the book.) I hadn’t read very much at all, maybe two or three pages. I was very tired, so went to sleep after a few minutes. Couldn’t keep my eyes open at all.

The dream had Mothman coming to me. Appearing to me. Mothman was responding to my call; even though I was doing no such thing. Not intentionally. But in the dream, it was made clear that even thinking about Mothman, and certainly doing things like getting up blogs and all, was enough to get Mothman’s attention.

In a previous dream I posted about here, Mothman wasn’t malevolent. He was a helper, although very distant, almost cold, seeming that way simply because he, or it, was not human, and we, as humans, don’t have a way to express these differences.

But in last night’s dream Mothman was a bit on the creepy side. I think it was because this was more of a warning, or reminder that, yes, Mothman “this way quickly comes” but you better not be messing around just for the hell of it.

There was more, something about other people who didn’t have the best intentions and weren’t up to much good; far “creepier” than Mothman, and so on. It’s here that the dream fades and gets vague.

As with many dreams, it wasn’t the details that were important, it was the emotions, the sense of the thing, that was the message.

Synchronicities and Warnings? - Brad Steiger

It’s to be assumed that, in this field of UFOs, cryptids like Mothman, ghosts, the paranormal, etc. that synchroniciites will occur. Seems almost redundant to say “synchronicities.”

The “warning” isn’t that dire, nothing so dramatic in my case. Maybe more like a gentle reminder to be aware. . .

I had just finished reading a section in Andrew Colvin’s Mothman Photographer’s II, where he talks about being responsible for one’s own enlightenment, as well as the potential danger of getting too close and too deep with all this stuff, as we all know. Some researchers have just gone too far down that rabbit hole, without ever landing. It’s important to be grounded even while chasing after all these things.

I was still thinking about this this morning, when I woke up. For some reason, it was on my mind first thing. Then I log on and see this item and link on The Anomalist, to Brad Stieger’s Dangers And Hazards Of Exploring Shadow World. In this piece, Stieger writes that:

It takes more than watching a couple of specials on a cable channel and reading a few books to become a paranormal or UFO researcher.

It takes years of study and listening to others who have wisdom and insights to share, among other things.

This is an important article. Stieger goes on to relate the experiences of a group of college students who got too close before knowing what they were doing. The theories as to why things got out of control are extremely interesting, and right on, in my opinion.

Keep in mind that at the center, or at least close to, of all this stuff, is the Trickster, or Cosmic Joker, or whatever you want to call it. It plays with us, it messes around, it thinks things are hysterically funny. Problem is, what “it’ considers amusing is often dangerous to us; sometimes fatally dangerous.

Stieger goes on to include other accounts as well.

Maybe that’s what the meaning is behind the superstitions of Christianity and other mainstream religions about attempting to penetrate the mysteries of the Divine, the Creator, God/s. (”God works in mysteries ways; not for us to question why” kind of thing.) It got perverted somewhere along the way, but is it possible the original intent was to warn of getting into something before you’re ready?

Red Glowing Eyes and Bird Men Thingies. . .

Here’s a very interesting and nice article by Jonathan Downes, author of
The Owlman & Others. (Thanks to Nick Redfern who alerted me to the link.) Of course, I’ve known about this book since it came out but haven’t read it. This is a reminder to go over to Amazon and order it right away.

The article is very interesting for a lot of reasons; just by itself, as a Fortean-cryptid piece, but also for its similarities to Mothman. Winged human type creatures, owls, the reaction of animals in the area, weird weather, red glowing eyes, all kinds of things.

Speaking of red glowing eyes, read Nick Redfern’s item at his Man-Beat U.K. blog. It’s not about Mothman per se, but still interesting.

And Kithra, of Kithra’s Krystal Cave and who is also a contributor to one of my blogs, Women Of Esoterica, has a good piece on glowing red eyes as well: Glowing Red Eyes.

Which reminds me, a Trickster’s Realm article for Binnall of America that I wrote a few weeks ago is also on red glowing eyes in Oregon. Sort of . . .

Mothman Video: YouTube

Linda Scarberry is interviewed briefly in this ten minute clip. Neat old footage. From Weird USA.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ALEA8xWW4g&feature=related